vista64 cold boot times

Althulas

Althulas

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what cold boot times are you folks getiing with vista64?

Mine boots in 1.15 to desktop is that about right for my sys?

My system: asus commando, e8500, 8800gtx, x4 1g ocz9200 flex, on board sound, x2 wd6400aaks raid 0 x1 maxtor dm17160g backup for now:D on the small side. Have on startup just drivers for g15 kb, g5 rat plus software managers, nvidia drivers and the essentials for os inc defender. I have all the services at default for now. I have let the system settle for a few hours to let disk indexing and superfetch do it stuff but I thought it would have been quicker to be honest.
 
Shadowness said:
Mine takes freakin ages! Only because of the stupid asus bios that wonts to wait for anything up to a minute in POST!
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Something is not right there... change boot order to the right hard drive etc ?

I think my boot time is about a minute... by my drive is super fragmented at the moment...
 
i just done mine from a cold start to the desktop and it took 1.20
just defragging my hard drive now and try again after
 
Dark_Angel said:
Something is not right there... change boot order to the right hard drive etc ?

I think my boot time is about a minute... by my drive is super fragmented at the moment...
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The bios is fone (I think), ive even set the ide timeout to 0 and still nothing. I've done a bit of searching on the topic, and im not alone. Ive read different reasons ranging froma bug in the bios to the nvidia driver being fussy!
 
Vista does take longer starting up than XP, I believe largely due to superfetch.

Don't worry about it it is hardly an important metric.
 
Around a minute for me, never actually timed it though. Old machine (athlon 2400+ with xp sp2) used to take about 5 minutes though, so I'm happy with it!
 
Boot times from power-on are meaningless as everyone's BIOS takes differing amounts of time to POST. Time it from when Windows itself starts booting, just after the final BIOS POST screen disappears.
 
Never really timed it and not at home with my Vista box, but Vista 64 boots more quickly than XP ever did for me. Takes 4.5 scrolls of the green loading bar and then about five seconds more for the welcome screen to appear, then it goes straight to desktop. Q6600, 4GB, WD 640GB.
 
Dunno about any of you guys but I've found Vista's boot time slower since SP1. I'm running Vista Home Premium 64, and ever since I installed SP1 when Vista boots it seems to take ages to load my handful of startup applications, which before SP1 literally instantly loaded.
 
Vista 64 boots to a usable state faster than XP ever did for me. I can start launching applications when I see the desktop and they will appear within a few seconds where as XP would sit there with the hard drive crunching for a while. I would normally use Hibernation (S4 Sleep) to eliminate startup times but with 4GB of RAM it is disabled.
 
about 30 seconds for me from power on to desktop, was a bit faster a few days ago before i installed the latest nforce drivers ? no idea why its slowed down but 30 seconds is still pretty nifty :)
 
I've got 4GB of ram so superfetch takes ages to populate that, even with a WD Raptor. General startup from BIOS POST to Desktop is around a minute too. I try not to reboot that much because the startup times do actually annoy me.
 
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